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The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-08-11

The age has developed a great vari-
ETY. OF contests, the latest being in eat.
ing and drinking. and these are becom-
ing frequent. Two champion clam
eaters had a contest the other day in
Brooklyn, N. Y, which turned out to
be one sided affair. A man named
Kepler disposed of 16O CLANS in just
tour minutes, while his opponent kept
on until he had put over a thousand
into his stomach, and then he called
Tor a spring c~hicken-but he had to
be relieved afterwards by an emetic.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-08-11
The recent tOrrid weather was n,

'- u = -
The recent torrid weather vas par
ticularly trying and deadly in the
great cities. The mortality record III
Brooklyn shows that for the six
months ending July 2, the deaths il
that city numbered 1886, being s21
more than in the corresponding sis
month, Of 1886, and representing ar
annual death rate OF 21.3O in every
1000 ofthe population. In New York
Chicago, and other cities the ratio
was about the same, and is attribut
ed mostly to the extreme heat. II
the northwest there were not many
deaths from this cause, although th'
heat was almost unprecedented.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-08-11

Complete returns for the last ical
year shows that our exports exceeded
in value our imports by $24, 445, 900,
For the preceding year the excess was
$44, 900, 600. Both the exports and
the importe were larger than in the
year ending June 80. 1886. The in
9 OF $37, 600. 900 in the value o.
the exports was caused by Jul large
foreign sales ofwheat and wheat -four
the value OF these products exported
having been greater by $53, OOO,OO
than in the preceding year. If thu
outward movement Of cotton had not
been checked by speculation the bal
ance in our favor would have been lar
ger by $20,oo9,ooo or $25, 600, 900
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-08-11
Moonlight in Dakota

$50" l&L
A Dakota young lady was visiting 4
friendi in the east who had visited her
in Dakota last summer.
"You don't know how / miss our
lovely Dakota moonlight" said the
territorial maiden. "~
Don't you think the moon is as nice
here as at your 5homep" asked her
5friends -
.'Ob. it isn't half 50 lovely. You
ought to see tits perfectly elegant
and makes it almost as light as day.
!: didasee j last summer audit didn,t
seem 20 me 70 be any brighter than II
is here" %s 9Fs
oh, well. last summer Of course 81
WASH = but you ought to see 1t this sums
NOR since the boom struck our plaosi
= is fifty per. cent brighter. = Dabo
Bel.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-08-11

new layer should be formed BY press
ing pieces against the side Of the bar
rel and SO continuing until the center
is reached. In taking out thu pork the
center piece should be firsf Aremoved,
the other pieces remaining u%ndisturbed.
Some careful housewives never return
a piece OF pork to the barrel. They
have a crock or firkin filed with brine
intwhich they keep the piece from
which they cut slices for daily use.
This plan is q good one to pursue, es-
pecially during warm weather. About
the 1st Of May the pork barrel should
be most carefully EXAMINED. If there
is a scum on top of the brine, or fat or
particle Of meat floating in ii, it should
be poured out, boiled, allowed TO cool;
and then be put back. If the pieces Of
pork are not SO packed that they will
keep their places, they should be held
In position by a weight, as a clean, fiat
stone. - IEES~js% %.s .A% ~ S8., $50
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-08-11
Woman who Won't Abstain.

A female temperance advocate says
total abstinence means wealth.
Perhaps it does. But after abstain
ing from q new bonnet for
six or eight weeks the average
woman concludes that wealth without
millinery vendure to adorn it is an
ugly, hump-backed. knock-kneed fraud.
The time and money wasted on en-
broidery and fancy work that is never,
seen by the great eye Of the public ex-
cept IN wash day would pay the ma
tional debt and buy out every dis
tillery in the land in twelve months.
but all the same she persists i'm her
.pro6igate course of understanding.
Every woman, young or old. expects to
to be caught in a railroad accident or
runaway sometime, and wen in death
she wishes to make her, friends senvious
by the newspaper account of her ward
robe. While this state of things ex-
lists the topper will continue to en-
~broider his stomach with pnrpled tin
ted trimmings.-DuluM P~ardgraphey.
r. S%a "
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-08-11
Plantation Philosophy.

49,
De CREATES truth is sometimes told
by de biggest liar.
1doan kere how smart er man is. de-
fust thing he knows he IL meet or man
OATS jes err little smarter.
Oar is a]1uss erbolt de- smart man er
incarnation not to, do. his best. De-.
razor dat splits GER ha'r is sharper den
de one dat cuts It squar in two.
Oar is ez much danger in ober dom.
!er thing ez dar is-in not dom it we'll
er nuff. De dog, mighty often rims so.
fas' dat he falls ober de rabbit an dan
let's him git er way
It's er putty hardHmattsr fur er man
dat's got on. er po' suit o. cloze ter be.
in -er good humor wild de worlp De
strawberry is nearly allus sour when
de seeds bergins ter :show.-Arkansasy
Iraveler.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-08-11
Where General Grant Died.

Joseph w. Drexel, the New York banker,
has written Commander. in chief Fairchild
a letter rendering, free Of expense, through
him, to the surviving Union soldiers OF the
late war perpetuity, the cottage on Mount
McGregor, N. Y, in which Gem
Grant died. There is no stipulation as
to how it shall be used, but it is
specified that the trustees shall consist OF
the commander-in-chief OF the Grand Army,
the president OF Mount McGregor railway,
and such other persons as Mr.. Drexel or
his successors as president OF the Drexel &
Morgan Banking company may designate.
Gen. Fairchild has laid the proposition
before the executive committee OF the
national council administration OF the
Grand Army, which is now in correspond.
ence with Mr.. Drexel with relation to it.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-08-11

The records of the Pennsylvania
hospital at Philadelphia, which have
beeen kept for nearly a century, do
not show any hotter July than the
past month, and although the hot
spell has not been confined to any one
locality, Philadelphia has been hotter
than any place north OF Jacksonville,
Fla, and the number of deaths result.
Ing indirectly from the heat has been
large.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-08-11

The Interstate commission decides
that commercial travellers cannot be
granted lower rates than other trav'
elers. J The design Of the act, no mat.
ter how it~may be interpreted, was to
prevent determinations, for or against,
anybody. 1t, takes a long time to. get
this through tine heads ofhitherto ia.
vored classes.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-08-11
Meteoric Thunder

The most rapid cannon shots, accord
ing to N. Him, scarcely reach i speed
OF 1000 per second, while meteoritesI
penetrate the. air at the rate Of tWenty-,
i've or thirty miles, and, even more, per
seconds With this velocity the air ID
at once raised to q temperature of 1000
10 10000 degrees and the meteorits's
surface IS torn away by atmospheric
friction and vaporized by the heat
The sounds produced range from the
whistlingsof q bullet to the crash and,
roll Of thunder. They are explained
BY this author as resulting from thsl
rush OF air to fill the gap Ii ths rear
rather than from actual explosion, 81
ING analogous to thunder aftsr lght
ming.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-08-11

Apropos ofthe enthusiasm shown at
the spithead Eng. lrieview for Nelson's
old war ship, the Victory, the New
York Times suggests that congress
make an appropriation to care for
Admiral F%arragut's flag ship, the
Hartford, and for the Kearsage, which
sunk the rebel Prlvateer Alabama.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-08-11

A rumor had somewhat got abroad
that Her Majesty, Queen Victoria, in
tended to present every baby born or
her ju bilee date, June FL, a silver era.
die and six golded guineas. -Four
hundred mot hers applied to the Queen
tor the expected gilt. only to be turn
ed away empty. Investigation proved
the rumor to. be untrue. Hence the
almost universal baby wall.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-08-11

Mop Chicago spring wheat has
lately been selling at a price which
makes It cost only eighty-seven cents
. bushel in Liverpool. with freight and
insurance paid. This beats the rec.
ord Tor cheap grain.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-08-11
Rights Of Settlers ON Territorial School Lands.

Rights OF Settlers ON Territorial School Lands.
In the case OF Thomas F. Watson oI
Washington Territory, in which'is involyi
ed the question OF the rights OF settlers up
on school lands in the territories, Assist
ant Secretary Muldrow has decided: I'm.
der the acts granting to the territories
lands Tor school purposes, where the land
at the date OF survey 10 occupied by an
actual settler, his right to the lands is su-
perior to the right OF the territory. Where
school lands at the date OF survey are oc-
cupied by In actual settler. the territory
10 entitled to select equivalent lands in the
lien thereof as Indemnity. Having made
such q selection, the indemnity land so
selected is held in reservation in lien OF
the school selection upon which such sc.
lection vas made, and the school section,
by the act OF such selection, is released
from reservation, and therefore an entry
OF a school selection, made while the Sc.
lection OF equivalent land remained in
tact, vas valid.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-08-11

The city OF Peshawur, in the northwest.
srn part OF India, in the Punjab, is inflicted
with cholera Of the worst type. Three
hundred deaths from the disease occurred
during the month OF July.
Alfred Sawyers was hanged at Lancaster,
England, for the murder OF his sweetheart.
Ferry has finally chosen M. NJ. Proust
and Roynal as seconds in his Coming duel
with Gen. Boulanger. They meet at NJ.
Proust's residence to decide upon condi.
tons.
July reduction in the public debt il some.
thing over four and three-quarters millions,
No writ OF %extradition has been asked
In McGarigle's case.
The decrease in the public debt last
month was 81, S44, 1874.
At a meeting OF the Parnellites it was de-
cided to adopt a passive policy after the
passage of the land bill, in order to allow
q speedy close OF the session.
Mrs. Hubbard, wife OF the United States
minister to Japan, died at Toxic after
many months illness"
The British ship Star OF Scotia, Captain
| Cotter, from San Francisco April 81, Tor
| Queenstown, has been wrecked off tho
seven Of the crew were drowned. .s
AaJkoH, eultoE u Cno AAoscOW dA1etees
is dead. ,.. ,,.s:s.,.
Justice Gray, oi>the federal supreme
court, 10 about to build. q house; in Wash.
ington, and it is thought he, intends. to
marry. ri 49,
The following postmasters were com
missioned: Dakato-Hackett N. A.
Smith. Iowa-Ollie, W. H Jeffreys.,
A son. oil. ex-Attorney General Wayne
Mcyeagh is to marry q daughter of Gen.
Hammond, who now lives in Minnesota,
and who was in the volunteer army in the
war. &E&t ''s*'S 'fs&s@ +'~ ~ "s%"
Capt. Gilbert Knapp, the founder Of the
city Of Racine, Wis, and the first white
man who established a settlement in that
part Of ths state, died at Racine recently
81 old age and general debility.
The weather in Washington continues
warm and oppressive, and many persons
engaged in outdoor work have succumbed
TO the heat within the past few days. The
mortality has also been great among
horses, especially those employed by the
street q lines. The heat was SO great
that it was found necessary to close the
war and navy departments an hour ear
iier than, usual-
Secretary Lamar determines to execute
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-08-11
Stanford Comfortably Rich.

In the Pacific investigation at San Fran.
cisco, in speaking OF the value of the stock
while the road was in the course Of. con.
~struction, Senator Stanford said that
when the line reached Ogden they would
have been glad to have disposed Of it at
10 cents on the dollar. After the CONSOLE
dalton of the roads now comprising the
Central Pacific lines his share was some
thing like thirteen dollars.
'What is your present interest in the
Central Pacific?" was asked.
II believe at present Town 80, 900 shares
at 500 o share"
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-08-11

so many new railroads are incourse
o. construction that the Chicago Rail-
road Age estimates the total new mile.
ageiaid and to be down in in 1887 at
not less than 10000 miles.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-08-11

meeting at Fargo. The following OH
GERS were elected: President, A. B.
Bennett, Devils Lake; first vice presi.
dent, D. M. Holmes of Grand Forks;
second vice president, Fred Vogell, La
'Moure; treasurer, E. c.: Maxey, Fargo;
secretary, II. G. Hassawan, Grafton.
August Shultz was killed near
Watertown while attempting to
drive a Mr.. King from claim.
Schultz made an .ante-mortem state.
ment in which he said he burned Kings
house and. meant to. and kill him, as
King had got his claim. shultz lived in
Olmstead county, MINI. g. :
The following pensions have been
granted: Dakota. j. ii. Mead,
Grand View; E. M. <Gallagan. Clark;
A. Chandler, sCannin;a W. D.s6tiles;
Sioux Falls. $50
In court at Mandan, Judge Franci.
on addressing the grand jury called
their attention to the state OF affairs
in Mercer county. He ordered them
to make q full investigations. Iii Thu
case 81. adams againt the Northern
Pacific for personal injuries, the jury
awarded the plaintiff $1,000.
A bolt Of lightning struck the house
OF Thomas Porter, one mile north o.
Okobogi, sully county, killing him in
stantly. He leavesa wife and three
children.
A heavy rain storm with consider
able electricity visited Clark. The
barn d, George D. Brown, three miles
northeast OF here, was destroyed by
lightning; loss. $500. The barn of D.
D. Jacobs, twelve miles southwest,
wasalso burned.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-04-05

change, but believe il is doing all 1t can.
as it is now organized 1t never will get
the entire control of the fruit, for men
like Yourself who have all the facilities
for finding the standing of commission
houses are not apt to put all their fruit
into the hands OF the Exchange without
some inducement being offered.
Ihe commission men who are not
agents of the Exchange would be idiots
To sit still and allow one house in their
town to- handle all the fruit. They
would not he worthy the respect OF the
growers whose interest they now repre-
sent. They would be stupid fools
There might he some show for better
prices with IA high tariff Congress, but
with Your free trade representatives
there is not much hope for you. The
present duty and the freight on foreign
fruit does not amount to more than the
freight from Florida.
We are sorry To take So much of your
time. but thoughts will come to one
when such a subject is before him. The
market is now in a very bad condition,
too much fruit for the demand; during
the cold weather the stocks accumulated
We inclose some posters showing how
the dealers are striving to get rid of
their stocks. These sales are every
week, and sometimes several of them
during the week.
Yours very truly.
f. l.. PALMER x 90.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-04-05
Spring i'm the North.
New York Tribune.


This March may go out after all in u
somewhat lamb-like frame of mind. hut
it has been "A decidedly ionine month;
colder and more boisterous than this no
tori9usly clustering period of the year is
wont u b.. Possibly the hardness of
spring would not ba So uncomfortably
obvious had not the winter. which the.
almanac says ended ten days ago. begun
very early. The first week of December
witnessed fall of snow in the Gulf and
Atlantic States unprecedented for many
years at that stage of the season: and the
ensuing weeks have been marked by
rapid fluctuations of the weather sadly
trying to health and patience. Normally
the annual temperature curve makes a
perceptible upward turn in March. but
n this vicinity the average for the month
just ending is practically the SAME a.
that for February. Indeed there Were
several DAYS last month and in January
which were actually warmer than any
hereahouts. in the last four weeks and q
half.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-04-05
= Twas Ever Thus.

Some of our neighbors seem To have
boom ON the brain. Ii is Il fascinating
and ecstacy malady. A stranger saw a
number Of them pIoughing recently on a
plain He supposed. of course. that they
were getting burrows ready for corn
planting. One of them explained. how
ever. in this WISE
Man alive. them amt corn burrows
over thar. They air streets. and this
here Is a city. You air now ON the cor
ner of Commercial and Emporium
streets, and not in the check of a corn
row. as You mOught suppose.
Go ON. gentlemen; We know Just how
YOU feel when YOU are going up like n
rocket and some of Us will he ready Ia
sympathize with you If YOU ever have.
the i'll fortune to come down like stick.
Every ente rpriSing community must get
experience i'm Just that way. Sic t,tF
al sfSfFt;
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-04-05

Three Trans -, tween Jao ksonN lille aud SAN
ford. No change Of cars between Jackson
vi le and TAMPA.
he 1910 .. m. cuban fast mail tTnIu awaits
the arrival OF the fast mali from the North,
and stoI only az tie Iincipal stations and
al lemon street, Palntka, making connection
at To mpa WITH stea1 crs Tor Key West aud
Havana ON tuesday. Thursday M d Saturday
evenings. Pullman bHnet Sleeping cars are
attached To this train fl ON New York through
TO Tampa, ana the y. IN. train from Tampa
through 10 Nsshiupto Other mains have
Chaif Parlor Cars.
DHe.t connection il made nj i'slntka with
the Florida southern Railway 90 and from
GAINESVILLE, Ocala, Ieesburg. ana ether points
reached by that road. lso with OckiawHha
river steamers, and with the ~. Johns and
Halifax Railway for OrmOnd, DAA "a nH, etc.
At Burlington with stages for Crescent CITY.
at Orange City Junction with u. y. %. {. AZ
n. by. tor Lake He en-. az Monroe With Orange
Beat Hallway tor LOnpwOod aud Oakland; at
Sanford for all points reached 10y South Flor
ida railroad.
Tram leaving Jacksonville 80 "A. IN. ana
arriving s;iU y. M connect at IItusyi ie with
steamer "hockedRe" 10 and from Cocoon,
hockIedge, Melbourne and intermediate land
lngs on Indian hiver. daily, eNceIt sunday.
city Ticket Once. NV cor. bay snd Hogan ste
NJ. II. MORAN,
Gen'l supt. aud q. u. A.
L. e. DEFINING. A. a.. y. 4.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-04-05
4 Happy CITY.


biiiiifiShdHi NAEti fSt-
Columbus, Miss, ought to be, for it has
the right to be. the happiest town in all
America. Ii has IA population of 5000,
and Lowndes county, of which it is the
capital, "a population of 10000, and yet
the county Jail is as empty of criminals
rs any of its churches.
The Jail doors are locked and the
jailer meanders about the streets II
gentleman of elegant leisure. Likewise
her city prison is empty AMI her police
men may find peaceful repose on goods
boxes and stairways and sleep unmo-
Tested. What blessed state for any
community. Birmingham is proud in
the anticipation of an early and il hopes
intimate connection with beautiful and
law-abiding Columbus. When that time
comes We shall he glad to give her some
lessons in enterprise if she will teach us
some of her peaceful WAYS.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-04-05
The True Doctrine.
Tnmpa Journal.

Our local contemporary has assaulted
the Journal because 1T has denounced
the ''Okeechobee Drainage Fraud" We
did this upon the unmistakable and hon
est evidence of Democrats that fraud
has been committed. in which the honest
and trusting people of the State have
been swindled out of large portion of
the public domain. The Tribune con-
strues our announcement of this fraud
to- be- an attack upon Ex-Governor Biloxi
ham. Our policy is to -'hew to- the line,
let the chips fall where they may" and
if any of these chips are striking eN-
Governor Bloxham we can not help n
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-04-05
\ Marked Ontrast.

THE PAIATKA News makes graceful
acknowledgment of the kind words spok-
en- of it by the State exchanges, and says:
From whatever section of the State
they come, these country weeklies are al
ways welcome in this office, and are more
carefully read than our metropolitan ex-
changes, because they are nearer the peo-
Pile and furnish our most reliable index to
the drift of popular sentiment"
This view is in marked contrast To- that
entertained by the great and good
Times Union. which speaks of the weekly
press as the NANCY pack of journalistic
,.tIr
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-04-05

CONNECTIONS.
At Palhtka with Jacksonville, TamOa & Key
eel Railway, and 81. August inc and Palatka
Hallway. and fast river steamers for st. Au-
gustine, Green Cove Springs, jacksonville
and all points North. East and West.
Mail trains make close connection both way .
wa j. L. h X W. R'y., at Jacksonville nth At
lant.c Coast Line. Fast Mail.
At Gainesville with through Pullman sleep
ers over Savannah Florida x Western R'y for
New Orleans, Pensacola, Savannah. Albany,
Montgomery, Louisville, 81. Louis and ali
points West.
At Ocala with orida Railway and Nayiya-
ton Co.. and 5. =. u. a G.. H. X.
At Aston with st. Johns river steamers (. 2
Jacksonville Sanford and way landings.
At Leesburg with the 81. Johns aud LAX.
Eustis division of the FLORIDA Southern Rail-
way. and boats on Lakes Harris. lust IL nd
Griffin foi all points on lakes.
At Tampa with steamships Aascotte and
Whitney every Tuesday, Thursday aud satIr-
day for Key West and Havana.
At L. keland with South florids Railr BAD
for Tampa. kissimmee, Orlando and sanford.
At Trabue with steamer Alice Howard
for Punta Rassa and tort Myers
3. COSAS1, o.. BhbAWELL
General MANAGER. 8enl Pass. Agent.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-04-05

Jac ksonville Herald.

Coming to practical common sense
the best security against such risks is a
barking dog. No burglar attempts "a
house where such am animal is kept
This advice was given to- Walter Scott
by a burglar whom he defended. Scott
was then a practicing lawyer, and as
this advice was all the pay he received
he considered it of some value. To use
"a pistol against burglar is dangerous
since they are always armed and are
generally good at a shot.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-04-05
MEDICAL,

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Price 800, or six bottles for $500.
large treatise on Diseases of Women. pro-
f1sely illustrated with colored plates and nu-
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Address, WORLDS DTsPESsARY MEDICAL
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